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Artist : Robert Pollard
Album : Robert Pollard Is Off To Business
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Year : 2008
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Review
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After amicably departing Merge Records after 4 albums in two years, Robert Pollard Is Off To Business will be Robert Pollard’s only proper "Robert Pollard" full-length for 2008, released on Robert Pollard’s new Guided By Voices Inc. label.
At 10 songs in 35 minutes, it’s an extraordinary rock tour de force. Robert Pollard Is Off To Business sports Todd Tobias’ cleanest and meanest production yet, giant songs and riffs that pack a wallop, and arguably Pollard’s finest singing ever captured on record. For Pollard, whose albums normally run 15-25 songs, this 10-song work (the majority 3:30 or longer) is a departure from form. Since
freeing himself of a band in 2004, his albums have each had very distinct and varied flavors, and his creativity has flowered.Extraordinarily influential, Pollard is not just a founding father of indie rock, but in the long run will prove to be an important part of rock history, with a significant oeuvre that branches from The Who, Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, Wire and The Clean.
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Robert Pollard Returns To Serious ‘Business’
May 07, 2008, 6:15 PM ET
Greg Prato, N.Y.The ever-prolific ex-Guided By Voices leader Robert Pollard is taking on new artistic challenges this year as he prepares to launch his own record label — Guided By Voices Inc. — and release his latest solo outing, "Robert Pollard Is Off to Business," on June 3.
"I made the album purposely into more of a classic rock-styled record, where I was a little more disciplined with my songwriting approach," Pollard tells Billboard.com. "Almost a semi-prog rock record, although it’s a pop record too. Kind of in the vein of Peter Gabriel‚Äôs first solo album. It’s a starting point."
Interestingly, Pollard almost dusted off the Guided by Voices name for the project.
"I was at one point toying with using the name again…. But then I thought it might be construed as I‚Äôm trying to capitalize on the name to sell more records — and I didn‚Äôt want it to appear that way. My manager decided, ‘Why don’t we call that the label — Guided By Voices Inc.?’"
For now, the label will solely handle Pollard’s own records, but this may change in the future to include other acts.
Also on the horizon will be a tour to support "Robert Pollard Is Off to Business."
"I think I’m going to out in the fall — after I have this album and a couple of more things finished, and I have a lot of material to work with. My goal is I don‚Äôt want to play anything I’ve played live before live. I know a lot of people expect … ‘Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory’ and ‘Cut-Out Witch’ and things like that. I’ve been doing things like that for so long that I’m sick of doing that…. I want to play not necessarily mostly new stuff, but the older songs, I want them to be obscure — like songs from ‘Suitcase.’"
Also coming this summer will be a coffee table book, ‘Town of Mirrors,’ via Fantagraphics Books.
"I did an art show with my collages just recently. In the last couple of years, I’ve had people come to me and say, ‘You’ve got to do an art show with your collages.’ So I did one about six months ago. I’ve been talking to a couple of people from Fantagraphics for the last few years — they were interested in doing a coffee table book. And I thought, ‘I don’t know if I have enough stuff … they‚Äôve got people like R. Crumb and Charles Schultz. I thought, ‘That’s pretty serious company.’ But they were interested and with the success of this New York art show, I thought, ‘Let’s do it then.’"
Lastly, expect further musical projects from Pollard, including a brand new band.
"I continue to work with Todd Tobias, and we do the Circus Devils thing — we have a Circus Devils record finished, and we’ve got another one we’re going to work on soon. And I’ve got another project that I’m not really going to go into, because I want there to be a little bit of mystery about it ‚Äì a new band I’m forming called Boston Spaceships. I’m not quite sure who’s going to be involved, but I plan on that being my new band."
Track Listing
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1. The Original Heart (2:15)
2. The Blondes (4:22)
3. 1 Years Old (1:49)
4. Gratification To Concrete (3:33)
5. No One But I (3:39)
6. Weatherman And Skin Goddess (5:22)
7. Confessions Of A Teenage Jerk-Off (4:11)
8. To The Path! (3:23)
9. Western Centipede (2:42)
10. Wealth And Hell-Being (3:27)Total Playing Time: 34:48 (min:sec)
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